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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - Faith In The Middle Of The Attack | October 12, 2025
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- Creflo dollar: we have this attitude of, "well, thank god
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- For his grace.
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- So i'm just not gonna do nothing."
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- And that's not what it means.
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- It means you're standing in the victory of what jesus
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- Has obtained.
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- And while you're standing, he has--he will assist you with
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- Something called faith in the middle of the attack.
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- Creflo: go with me to the book of romans chapter 5 and verse 2.
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- We're gonna talk about faith and grace in the midst
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- Of discomfort.
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- We have all--we all agree that there is a purpose
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- In discomfort.
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- It is something that no one who's alive on the planet
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- Can avoid.
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- Discomfort is something that is used to help mature us, to help
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- Grow us up.
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- And there's one thing you've got to please understand, you cannot
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- Grow in the comfort zone.
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- You're not gonna grow, being comfortable all the time,
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- Running away from trials and tribulations.
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- The bible says they that live godly shall suffer persecution.
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- So it's not this thing of something's wrong with you if
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- Tribulation and trouble and discomfort shows up in
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- Your life.
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- God is trying to mature you.
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- The objective is to get to the point where you can grow in the
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- Image of the lord jesus christ.
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- It is a journey.
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- You should not punish yourself because you had things happen on
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- The journey or you fail on the journey or things were not
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- Working on the journey.
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- It is a journey and on this journey, there will be some
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- Uncomfortable situations that you will have to face.
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- This is a part of our spiritual maturity and we must grow.
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- This thing about, "well, i'm a christian and i got saved, so i
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- Won't ever have to be in discomfort," that--somebody
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- Made that up.
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- You have to grow and you grow in the middle of pressure, you grow
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- In the middle of confrontation.
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- All of the things that you experience in life, if you don't
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- Run away from them, if you stand in them and know how to do it
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- Properly, each time you will grow.
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- When some months or years will go by and you look back and say,
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- "wow, had i not experienced that, i wouldn't know this."
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- And so, you know, the question is not if discomfort is supposed
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- To be a part of a christian's life.
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- The question we want to deal with today is, you know, how do
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- We go through it?
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- How do we go through it?
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- Notice, you're not going to build a house in discomfort, but
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- How do i go through it?
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- And the way we go through it is through this grace that's been
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- Made available to us.
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- And the way we go through it is by living this life of faith.
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- And now we get to a chance to see in context how faith and
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- Grace works to bring you or to help you in the middle
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- Of discomfort.
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- Now, let me start with this.
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- The scripture says in philippians chapter 3, verse 10,
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- He talks about the apostle paul saying that he wants to know
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- Him, know jesus, in the fellowship of his suffering.
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- Very interesting way to say that.
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- I wanna know him in the fellowship of his suffering.
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- Now, some people have thought, "well, that means i wanna suffer
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- Like christ suffered," and that's not quite what it means,
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- Because the stuff that christ suffered, some of you wouldn't
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- Survive for a minute.
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- They hit you with a cat o' nine tails, you're like, "okay, okay,
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- I'll do whatever you want me to do," you know?
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- So he's definitely not talking about you suffering the same way
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- Jesus suffered.
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- The key word here in this phrase, "fellowship of
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- Suffering," is the word "fellowship."
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- It comes from an old greek word "koinonia," which is a giving
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- And taking, a giving and receiving relationship.
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- If you go to drink coffee with somebody, you say you want to
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- Fellowship with them, you know, that person has a part, you have
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- A part, you know?
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- They're gonna share some things with you.
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- You're gonna listen, you're gonna share something with them
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- And everybody operates in their part to accomplish fellowship.
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- Okay, so let's look at jesus's part in this fellowship
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- Of suffering.
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- His part was to be beat with a cat o' nine tails, to be the sin
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- Offering, to be nailed to the cross, to pay the ransom, to go
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- To a hell that we should have gone through, to suffer sin that
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- He took from us on him.
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- So his part of the fellowship of suffering is to obtain
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- The victory.
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- So he died and suffered to get the victory.
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- His suffering got us redemption and righteousness and healing
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- And all of the finished works.
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- That was his job.
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- So he got it.
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- So a lot of stuff we're praying for, it's already done.
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- A lot of stuff that you're asking god for, it's
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- Already done.
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- You--"o god, give me victory."
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- Victory has already been gotten, okay?
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- So that was jesus's part.
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- Now my part in this fellowship of suffering, your part in this
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- Fellowship of suffering, is to maintain what jesus obtained.
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- So everything he got, see, we gotta change our thinking.
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- We're trying to get god to do something now as if he hadn't
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- Done it.
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- It would be no different if i were to say to you, "sit down,"
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- And you're already seated.
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- How frustrating is that?
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- "sit down" and you're already seated.
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- And you're going, "god heal me," and he said, "i already
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- Did that."
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- God did, already.
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- So we got to change our thinking to line up with the reality of
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- How things are.
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- It's finished.
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- That's the last word he said on the cross.
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- It's finished.
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- I'm done, it's finished.
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- So whatever you're gonna be praying for or asking for
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- Or pleading for, it's done.
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- Imagine in heaven as they hear you plead and beg and ask, like
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- It's not already done.
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- It kind of indicates your unbelief.
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- So we, as christians, we've got to operate with this thing has
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- Presently been accomplished.
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- Now, my job is to maintain the victory that was obtained, which
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- Means i have a job of standing there for.
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- How long do i have to stand there?
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- Until i get what i'm standing for.
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- I'm standing there for.
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- So i believe that jesus has already given me the victory
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- Where deliverance is concerned, all right?
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- So you say, "i'm gonna stand on that," all right?
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- So now here comes the discomfort, here comes the
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- Trouble, to try to knock you off your stance.
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- And now am i just to stand there and get beat up?
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- Am i just to stand there and just get whopped in the head?
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- No, the bible says, "submit yourself to god.
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- Resist the devil."
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- That word "resist" means to withstand and to fight against.
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- And then if you'll do that, he will run with fear.
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- He will flee.
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- So you find something else in the scripture.
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- "oh i believe that.
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- I'm gonna stand on that."
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- And then all hell breaking loose to try to get you to change
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- Your mind.
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- "jesus didn't do nothing for you, didn't nothing happen on
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- That cross," and you're sitting there like, "no, i'm standing.
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- Oh nope, i'm standing."
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- And then, "now, so how do i stand?"
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- Okay, the attack comes.
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- You remember when taffi had that little red shield and she threw
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- Things at it.
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- We're standing with the shield of faith.
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- And what happens is, you know, you say, "i'm delivered," and he
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- Says, "no, you're not," and you hold your shield up.
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- "yes, i am."
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- He says, "no, you're not."
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- "yes, i am."
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- So the shield of faith is the word of god.
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- You go to the word and you're taking the promise of the word
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- And i'm gonna stand there with the word and every time you come
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- And do something to contradict my deliverance, i'm gonna say,
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- "i'm still delivered."
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- Huh, you know?
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- And he's coming.
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- "i'm still delivered."
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- So that's a illustration of what that looks like.
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- And it's all something that takes place in your mind and in
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- Your soul.
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- So what i wanna deal with because what happens is we
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- Understand grace, but we have this attitude of, "well, thank
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- God for his grace.
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- So i'm just not gonna do nothing," and that's not what
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- It means.
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- It means you're standing in the victory of what jesus
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- Has obtained.
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- And while you're standing, he has--he will assist you with
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- Something called faith in the middle of the attack.
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- Faith is not the magic wand to try to get you your stuff while
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- You're here.
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- Faith is your security in the midst of the attack while you
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- Standing on what you believe.
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- So this is gonna be a radical teaching on faith, grace.
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- A lot of people think and i don't know why this is, but
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- There are--there's this thing about--it kind of, you know,
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- Spirit of division come in everywhere.
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- Somebody starts teaching grace and then somebody has faith and
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- Now they're opposing one another.
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- Grace and faith should not oppose one another.
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- They go together like a hand and glove.
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- You see, there are two groups.
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- There's a group that says that those who emphasize grace, which
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- Is god's part.
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- Understand something about grace.
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- Grace is god's part.
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- It's not my part.
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- I ain't got nothing to do with grace.
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- It's all god.
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- That's god's part.
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- But then there are those who emphasize faith.
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- That's our part.
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- Faith is my part, grace is god's part, but they go together.
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- Grace is god's part, faith is my part.
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- Now we gotta get this faith thing right, because we're using
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- It like it's a magic wand.
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- "well, i'm gonna use my faith to rob that bank."
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- Well, grace didn't make that available for your faith to rob.
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- "well, you know in the name of jesus, i'm gonna use my faith to
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- Believe that taffi died so i can get her husband."
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- Grace didn't make me available to you.
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- Y'all laughing.
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- People do that.
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- "i'm gonna use my faith to get somebody's husband."
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- Well, grace hadn't made somebody's husband available for
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- Your faith to take.
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- And we do wild, weird stuff with faith because it leaped over
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- Its boundary.
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- It leaped out of its context, and we're not using it
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- Contextually what--where it was designed to use.
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- So we start in romans chapter 5. is everybody on the bus,
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- Everybody on the bus?
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- I know i kinda went there for a moment.
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- Everybody on the bus, right?
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- All right, all right, watch verse 2: "by whom also we have
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- Access--access by faith into this grace wherein we stand."
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- Look at here.
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- We have access into this grace.
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- See, grace has already made everything available and that's
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- Where we're standing.
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- We're standing in this grace.
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- "and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of god," or the
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- Manifestation of the glory of god.
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- But notice, notice how we gain access to grace.
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- Grace is this unmerited abounding provision in the
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- Unrestricted operation of god's love that comes through jesus
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- Christ to those who accept him, especially for those who depend
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- On him.
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- The grace of god is unmerited, but it is also increasing
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- Provision, but it is also love that can't be restricted by
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- Our crazy.
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- It comes through jesus christ because grace is not just a
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- Subject, it is a person, jesus, who is full of grace and truth,
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- And it will especially be available for those who lean and
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- Rely and depend on jesus christ.
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- And he says none of that can be accessed without faith.
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- So now all of a sudden, we need to understand how to live by
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- Faith so we can access this grace.
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- Everybody follow me?
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- All right now, go to-- look at romans 4:16.
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- Live by faith, so we can access grace.
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- Romans 4:16.
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- He says, "therefore it is of faith, that it might be
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- By grace."
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- They go together.
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- They're designed to go together.
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- They each have their function and they work together and
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- Without it, without grace, faith don't have nothing to
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- Access, yeah.
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- But without faith, you can't access all that grace that's
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- Made available.
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- So you gotta have both.
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- There's no opposition and no fight should be going on between
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- The grace people and the faith people.
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- We ought to be grace-faith people.
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- "therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; and to the
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- End the promise might be sure to all the seed."
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- Now move over to the book of hebrews chapter 2, i mean
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- Chapter 4, verse 2, hebrews chapter 4 and verse 2--well,
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- Now, let's go to ephesians 2:8.
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- This would be a perfect time to show this.
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- I'll look at it again, but ephesians 2 and 8--now, notice
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- About your salvation: "for by grace are you saved."
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- So you're saved by what?
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- What provided your salvation?
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- Take away grace, can you be saved?
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- So you're saved by grace?
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- All right, but how do you act-- how do you get a hold of it?
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- How do you take it?
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- Through what?
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- So you got what grace made available, but you got it
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- Through faith.
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- If you don't have faith, you can't get what grace made
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- Available, because whatever grace has made available, you
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- Take it through faith.
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- And that means through faith, man.
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- I believe that i am saved because grace made salvation
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- Available to me and i take it by faith.
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- And i'm not looking at my hands to see if my hands look new.
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- I'm not looking at my feet and see if they do too.
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- No, i am saved by grace and i now have it by my faith.
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- I didn't do nothing different.
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- I didn't sound different.
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- In fact, probably when i left the church, i emptied the trash
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- And cussed when i dropped the bottle on my feet.
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- I am--see, the thing that separated me from god was not
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- My sin action.
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- It was the sin nature that separated me from god.
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- But when i got born again, i had no longer the sin nature and now
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- I am right there with god, hallelujah, and he can do things
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- With my sin action because i'm no longer separated him because
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- Of this sinful nature, ooh.
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- Right?
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- Right? are you all following?
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- We're going on a journey today. you're going on a journey today.
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- Something getting ready to happen.
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- And you are not gonna be the last in line to find out that
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- You already got your victory.
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- I'm not--you're not gonna walk away.
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- You ain't walking out here today, "oh, praise the lord, one
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- Day i'm gonna get my victory."
- 00:17:06.472 --> 00:17:07.806
- No, you got your victory.
- 00:17:07.806 --> 00:17:09.141
- You got your victory right now.
- 00:17:09.141 --> 00:17:10.509
- Now, whether you wanna take it home with you is based on
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- Your faith.
- 00:17:13.078 --> 00:17:17.216
- You gotta walk around believing this.
- 00:17:17.216 --> 00:17:21.620
- Now, go to, i just said it, home--hebrews 4:2.
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- They were trying to enter into the rest and they heard
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- The word.
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- They heard the word.
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- "for unto us was the gospel preached."
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- Underline that word.
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- We need to find--we need to-- we need to understand
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- What the gospel is.
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- Someone says it's good news.
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- All right, let's keep going.
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- Good news about what?
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- Because somebody says, "well, the bible, the whole bible,
- 00:17:44.343 --> 00:17:46.612
- Good news."
- 00:17:46.612 --> 00:17:47.946
- No, there's some bad news in the bible too.
- 00:17:47.946 --> 00:17:50.649
- So we need some precision this morning about what the gospel
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- Is, so that we can determine if it's really being preached.
- 00:17:55.320 --> 00:18:00.759
- Because the coming of jesus christ is gonna be based on the
- 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.629
- Gospel being preached in all the world and the end will come.
- 00:18:03.629 --> 00:18:08.233
- And if we assume that the gospel is this one thing, just good
- 00:18:08.233 --> 00:18:12.471
- News, and we're not precise about what good news, then we'll
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- Be deceived, thinking the gospel being preached around the world
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- And it is not being preached around the world if you don't
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- Know what the gospel is, all right?
- 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:24.416
- So watch him.
- 00:18:24.416 --> 00:18:25.751
- He says: "unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them;
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- But the word preached did not," and then we gotta deal with
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- That word.
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- What word?
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- The word--what word?
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- What was the specific word that was preached?
- 00:18:38.997 --> 00:18:41.567
- What is the specific gospel, precisely the specific gospel?
- 00:18:41.567 --> 00:18:45.571
- He said, "as well as unto them: but the word preached did not
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- Profit them."
- 00:18:49.308 --> 00:18:50.676
- There was no profit from the word that they heard preached.
- 00:18:50.676 --> 00:18:55.247
- Why?
- 00:18:55.247 --> 00:18:56.582
- It wasn't mixed with faith.
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- It requires faith to appropriate what grace has made available.
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- If you understand that, say "amen."
- 00:19:07.593 --> 00:19:10.462
- Now, here's where i'm gonna attack all of our tradition.
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- Romans chapter 10 in verse 17.
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- Romans 10:17, very familiar scripture.
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- Ready?
- 00:19:30.816 --> 00:19:32.317
- So then if we're gonna have to have faith to access grace, "so
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- Then faith cometh by hearing,
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- And hearing by the word of god."
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- It would be cool if we all understood when somebody said
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- The word of god.
- 00:19:54.940 --> 00:19:56.308
- But we--we've got all this stuff out here.
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- So precisely what specific word that you hear for faith to come,
- 00:19:58.210 --> 00:20:08.053
- Because i can preach a word all over the 66 books, so precisely
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- What specific word do you hear for faith to come?
- 00:20:11.823 --> 00:20:15.661
- Well, let's look at it in the nlt.
- 00:20:15.661 --> 00:20:17.095
- Let's just travel to different versions here just for a moment.
- 00:20:17.095 --> 00:20:20.732
- In the nlt: "so faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the
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- Good news about christ."
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- So hearing the good news about christ, faith for that comes.
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- All right, let's keep going.
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- Let's look at this in the niv.
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- Somebody says, "you getting particular."
- 00:20:47.659 --> 00:20:49.027
- You know, in these days and times, you have to.
- 00:20:49.027 --> 00:20:52.531
- Because i can be preaching this right now and somebody will
- 00:20:52.531 --> 00:20:54.466
- Still be stuck on quoting what they know traditionally and not
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- Hearing what i'm saying.
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- All right, now, watch this.
- 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:03.108
- He said, "consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,
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- And the message is heard through the word about christ."
- 00:21:07.412 --> 00:21:13.452
- So he is saying that faith cometh by hearing the gospel
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- Or the good news, right?
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- The gospel.
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- What kind of gospel?
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- About christ.
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- Oh, my goodness.
- 00:21:26.898 --> 00:21:28.233
- Faith comes from hearing the gospel of christ.
- 00:21:28.233 --> 00:21:32.471
- Well, what grace got to do with that?
- 00:21:32.471 --> 00:21:33.805
- Well, going over here to, what is it?
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- I think it's galatians chapter 1 and 6, galatians 1 and 6.
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- Now let's take on what you heard so far.
- 00:21:45.517 --> 00:21:49.454
- I'm taking you on a little journey, galatians 1 and 6.
- 00:21:49.454 --> 00:21:53.358
- Paul is talking here.
- 00:21:53.358 --> 00:21:55.560
- He says, "i marvel that you are so soon removed from him that
- 00:21:55.560 --> 00:21:58.663
- Called you into the grace of christ," watch the assumption
- 00:21:58.663 --> 00:22:04.770
- Here, "unto another gospel."
- 00:22:04.770 --> 00:22:07.773
- He is saying here: i am tripping out that someone has--
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- That from him that called you into the gospel of the grace of
- 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.683
- Christ to another gospel.
- 00:22:18.683 --> 00:22:22.087
- And now notice what he says in verse 7, he's got that colon in
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- There, notice what he says in verse 7: "which is not
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- Another gospel."
- 00:22:27.192 --> 00:22:31.596
- "i'm surprised that you left the grace of christ to another
- 00:22:31.596 --> 00:22:36.701
- Gospel," and then he says, "there is no other--" right?
- 00:22:36.701 --> 00:22:43.041
- "there is no other gospel."
- 00:22:43.041 --> 00:22:45.243
- And i literally have heard people tell me, "well, there are
- 00:22:45.243 --> 00:22:48.346
- Other gospels."
- 00:22:48.346 --> 00:22:50.682
- There is no other.
- 00:22:50.682 --> 00:22:57.823
- There is no other--ain't no more good news like
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- This good news about jesus.
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- We're constantly working to bring the gospel of christ
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- To thousands of viewers and followers all around the world,
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- And we want you to get involved.
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- Follow us on facebook, instagram, and x,
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- And subscribe to creflo dollar ministries on youtube
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- For live services and more.
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- Together with you
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- We are making the word of grace available
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- Throughout every voice of social media.
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- Male announcer: thank you, partners and friends.
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- Your love and financial support makes it possible to bring
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- This message into millions of homes all across the globe.
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- The preceding program was brought to you in part
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- By the partners and friends of creflo dollar ministries.
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